Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This study focuses on methane leakage associated with discovery, extraction, and production of oil and natural gas. They also incorporated direct boat-based measurements of methane concentrations around offshore gas platforms in the North Sea collected in summer 2017, documented in a study also led by the authors.

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Charged

MARCH 30, 2021

The soda and snack seller placed an order for 100 Tesla Semis shortly after the e-truck’s 2017 launch. Infrastructure to support the project incorporates an adjacent natural gas station with renewable attributes, as well as solar carports, battery storage, truck charging systems and employee electric vehicle charging stations.”.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

utilities in setting a net-zero carbon target for 2050, aiming to balance the emissions from its sizable fossil fuel-fired generation fleet and sprawling natural gas business with reductions to be gained by expanding its portfolio of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Southern Company has joined other major U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2020

where the climate benefits of coal power plant retirements were undermined by the rise of natural gas. Global carbon emissions had leveled off in the middle of the last decade, but began to climb again in 2017, breaking records anew each year since.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

On December 17, 2017, a fire at an underground electrical facility damaged two substations that serve Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport — then and now the world’s busiest airport. megawatts of generating capacity, with 20 megawatts coming from natural gas-fired generators and 2.5

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Officials from one corporation, Venture Global, repeatedly told government regulators that CCS was incompatible with the company’s plans to build three massive new liquified natural gas export terminals in south Louisiana. exporters of liquified natural gas. The company is poised to be one of the largest U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

More immediately, Duke’s new plan improves on its 2017 goal to cut its 2030 carbon emissions by 40 percent, driven by “sustained low natural gas prices and declining costs for renewables and storage,” Tuesday’s press release noted. The gas question. Duke serves about 7.4

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 18, 2023

An industry group that’s called Canada’s federal climate targets “unachievable” and referred to opponents of oil and gas expansion as “climate alarmists” has received nearly $1.23 It counts among its affiliate members LNG Canada, a $40 billion gas export project on B.C.’s If exposed to air, it quickly vaporizes back to its gas form.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In order to manufacture products, companies in the industry sector must burn fuel, typically natural gas, to create heat. Technologies such as geothermal, biomass and solar, which Skyven initially focused on, can provide an alternative to natural gas to generate heat for industrial processes.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

This supported the rapid reduction of price, with utility-scale solar reaching 6 cents per kilowatt-hour in 2017 — three years before the Department of Energy’s ambitious SunShot goal , once seen as unrealistic. . There just isn’t a path to a safe climate future without addressing natural gas in buildings.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The first was that the shale gas boom in the U.S. unleashed massive new supplies of cheap natural gas. This made it economical for power plants to switch from coal to natural gas. Power produced from natural gas has lower associated carbon dioxide emissions. in 2017, and surged to 7.8%

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 17, 2022

Portuguese natural gas distributor REN Portgás Distribuição has reported passing the 400,000 gas customer milestone. Italgas advances network automation Project visit: Residential power-to-gas. Have you read? Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 23, 2024

as the world’s top liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter, this week the Energy Information Administration reported that the U.S. From less than half a million barrels per day (BPD) in 2015, exports reached 1 million BPD in 2017, 2 million BPD in 2018, 3 million BPD in 2020, and 4 million BPD in 2023. Annual U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

At many of these facilities, fossil fuels, and especially natural gas, are the energy feedstock used for process heating applications. Skyven Technologies was the $1 million grand-prize winner of the 2017 76West Clean Energy Competition. beverage sector for boiler and process heat came from natural gas.

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Charged

AUGUST 25, 2021

Russian based startup L-Charge has developed an off-grid EV charger that can be powered by liquid natural gas (LNG), hydrogen, or a mixture of the two—the ratio can be adjusted depending on regulations and fuel prices. With the electrification of the vehicle fleet, it seems unlikely that this figure will ever recover.”.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2023

In an effort to gain federal approval for a natural gas storage project in south Louisiana, Sempra LNG lobbyists crafted letters for Louisiana elected officials to send to federal regulators in support of the project. billion cubic feet of natural gas. billion cubic feet of natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in her Pennsylvania hometown, she will be facing off against some of the most powerful fossil fuel interests in the United States. LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Since its 2017 spinout from Google’s X “Moonshot Factory,” the company has installed about 500 of its geothermal heating and cooling systems in New York and Connecticut. households use natural gas or oil for heating, and most of the remainder use older, less efficient electric resistance heating.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Climate activists say the state’s progress on reducing building emissions has been far too slow given the pace of the climate crisis, and that it needs to end incentives for energy-efficient natural gas heating. rise in emissions from natural gas. for natural gas and 6.6% for natural gas and 6.6%

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 3, 2020

Meanwhile, in a striking bit of energy transition symbolism, the state’s Coal Mining Museum, located in a historical coal town called Benham, made the switch to solar as a cost-cutting measure back in 2017. The organization’s current capacity mix is 60 percent coal, 30 percent natural gas and diesel and 10 percent hydro.

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Charged

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Tesla is also slated to supply “electric truck charging infrastructure, a large-scale solar PV system, and two energy storage systems for facility peak shaving and heavy-duty electric truck charging,” according to PepsiCo’s filing with Valley Air.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 21, 2021

In 2017, ExxonMobil agreed to buy the Bass family’s Permian assets for up to $6.6 That was a factor that led ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods to claim in early 2019 that the company would increase oil and gas production in the Permian Basin from 600,000 barrels per day (bpd) to over 1 million bpd. That is going to be ExxonMobil’s defense.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 13, 2020

Heat makes up 35 percent of global energy consumption, and when it comes to space heating, direct combustion of fossil fuels in buildings plays a dominant role across the globe and is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. Natural gas and fuel oil satisfy 60 percent of heating needs of households in Europe. In the U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

State regulators rejected NextEra’s next bid, an $18 billion offer for Texas utility Oncor , in 2017 on concerns that the deal would not protect the credit rating of the distribution utility amid the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding of parent company Energy Future Holdings Corp. In 2016, NextEra’s $4.3 And Exelon Corp.,

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 2, 2020

Currently, the majority of hydrogen around the world is produced from fossil fuels (76% from natural gas, 23% from coal). Heating : Many buildings use natural gas for heat, and a portion of that energy could come from hydrogen instead. Pilot projects are underway trialing hydrogen into the natural gas network (e.g.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

natural gas production comes from federal leases in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. gas is produced, have been surprised to find that about 4 percent of the natural gas they pulled from the ground was leaking into the atmosphere. oil production and 1 percent of U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 15, 2023

This transition is being driven by several factors, including environmental regulations, competition from natural gas, and the declining cost of renewable energy. To date, a large fraction of coal’s displacement has come from natural gas.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 26, 2021

Keith Schue and I were introduced through email in 2017 by the executive director of New York Geo , Bill Nowak. The focus of our argument beyond reduction of GHG emissions was that the installation of natural-gas-fed electric power generators would be a “stranded asset.”

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Previous articles discussed the trends in global carbon dioxide emissions , the overall highlights of the Review, the production and consumption of petroleum, natural gas production and consumption, and coal production and consumption. Today we will cover nuclear power. Nuclear power is unique among energy sources.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 2, 2020

Over the last 30 years, the transition away from centralized energy infrastructure, global climate events like the devastating hurricanes of 2017, extreme volatility in the cost of fossil fuels, and a growing demand for renewable energy have shaped an unfamiliar theoretical term into not only a buzzword but a cornerstone of infrastructure planning.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric is turning to a decidedly low-tech solution to keep its customers’ lights on for this year’s coming fire season: mobile diesel generators. Another 40 megawatts of generators were deployed to back up critical facilities such as hospitals and water treatment plants.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

But in a blog post on her Watt-Logic website in September 2017, Porter wrote that “climate models overstate global warming”, with reference to models used by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The UK’s independent Climate Change Committee rebutted these arguments in 2013, after they were made by GWPF advisor Matt Ridley.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

It's a noteworthy entrance for Glidepath, a largely unknown developer that's been building on its portfolio since 2017. That doesn't mean new solar additions are likely to eclipse new gas generators , because gas builds are still quite cheap in the state. ” The lure of PJM.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 15, 2021

These services could include carbon capture and sequestration, renewable natural gas capture, hydrogen production, renewable power generation, electric transmission and renewable diesel production. In 2017, however, BP—which has rebranded from British Petroleum to Beyond Petroleum, stepped up wind and solar investments.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 26, 2019

By way of background, two class action lawsuits filed in the District of Massachusetts alleged that Eversource and Avangrid systematically abused their influence in the natural gas transmission market in violation of federal and state antitrust laws. 2017); Public Util. See, e.g. , Woolsey v. Morgan Ventures Energy Corp. ,

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

One of the nation’s largest coal plants permanently powered down this week after the owners determined it would be uneconomical to continue operating the facility as natural gas and renewable energy prices continue to drop. Natural gas and a massive solar-charged battery. SRP owns 42.9 percent owned by the U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Back in October of 2017, Jay wrote an article that Renewable Energy World published called CHP Project for Empire State Plaza Misses the Mark. Jay has written articles for RenewableEnergyWorld.com over the years and had just found out that he won an award for one of them.

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